Exceptions to be Thrown by BlobStore Implementations
I recently got a question on what Exceptions a BlobStore implementation should throw and this blog post answers that question. BlobStore implementations should throw either BlobStoreException or other...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Remote Blob Store August CTP Available
Updated RBS Packages are available as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP release. This includes the new default FILESTREAM RBS provider along with many other enhancements and bugfixes. This...
View ArticleRemote Blob Storage November CTP Refresh Available
The SQL Server 2008 R2 November Community Technology Preview Feature Pack is available for download now. This includes a refresh of the Remote Blob Storage package. Significant enhancements have...
View ArticleSQL Server Remote BLOB Store and FILESTREAM feature comparison
With the recent refresh of the RBS Feature Pack a brief comparison between RBS and the SQL Server FILESTREAM feature may be useful. FILESTREAM and RBS are complementary approaches for storage and...
View ArticleMultiple Blob Stores in RBS – Defaults and Explicit Store Selection
Recently I got a question on how a blob store is chosen for storing new blobs when multiple blob stores are present, and how to influence that choice. This might be of interest to many others and so I...
View ArticleRunning RBS Maintainer
We are getting some questions on this through this blog and our codeplex site and I thought that this subject needs a detailed blog post, so here is some information on running RBS maintainer....
View ArticleRBS Filestream Provider Small Blob Optimization Settings
The RBS Filestream Provider has a number of configuration options designed to ensure optimal read and write performance across a range of blob sizes. The defaults were chosen after performance testing...
View ArticleRBS Security Model
RBS stores blob data in external blob stores which often use a differing security method from SQL Server. This blog post details the RBS security model for administrators and provider developers....
View ArticleFixing RBS/Provider version mismatch issues
The problem Release of a new RBS library will cause the providers developed with older version to not work due to version mismatch. The symptoms Let’s take an example of SharePoint to understand where...
View ArticleSQL Server Remote Blob Storage (RBS) Credential Store Symmetric Key Rotation
The SQL Server team would like to advise RBS admins on security procedures for rotating the credential store symmetric key. If a provider requires the setup and use of a secret stored within the...
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